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foot wide, and then forming the two sides of the trough | end the house is closed by led, that i fit fe — finer d f carpen. t 
with se on edge, the whole being so cemented as to peesany projections for ov peg ap fe vg at “ try. We are not a of these species having | 
hold wai called the agp” -house by | — sgorwe north aa "Ross. shee. t Coul, the seat 
P I y fat h of | two doors. The hea: apparatus consists of a boiler enzi ii 
t Mf i ding fi he boiler which | (Fig. 2, B) at the aon Be and of ls pes running through height of “about 18 feet, em has stood very severe wea 
heats a stove at a short distance. The hot water flows | the wate — — the slate shelve ther, h. The vines es Nobilis, 
along the back and front of the pit, but E the return ‘ Pipes | “ The h ng apparatu: Paneth Butcher says, ‘‘is found Sabini, and Taurica, together with Abies Morinda, a 
+) i i pean e both of the | growing eon Jo ; Sa ess, however, hints ew 
water, or pew 50, | as circumstances may require, by } house and oft the lake and ‘als of water. The circulation | shall p may be difficult 4 Boy ave oo 
means of a small pipe that leads to the omtule. Another | of heat t wal “, communicates suf- | numbers to clothe our rane, les late Mr. Knight suc. 
. small pipe is laid i in the bottom of the troug’ h for letting fic ient warmth for the ‘double paren. ale crea’ ting an eva- ceeded in grafting so’ of them n the larch, and it ig 
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f the plant-sti connected their bearing seed must not be too ‘sanguinely entertained, 
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built up in narrow Pang a layer alternately ¢ an | of some importance, as 3 it allows rage placing i in the plant- sade For example, there i is. a Spanish chestnut, tree in in 
“ equal quantity of Segoe and a good i f s-shire, 
straw. When wanted for use it is chopped up ak when of rest. The boiler is formed of _ by that height from the ground, yet never bears se seed ; 
. spade, is not sifted, and one third of well-decayed leaf- deal pipes garde ced in rows alternately above each other, vast is very remarkable, this splendid ¢ tree bore none in 
. mould is added. eated by one or two fires at plonrare. e heat ing 6, 
Tn ord I wibstnra was _constructe d by J. Weeks junior, in 1839, poe chestnuts, plants from wh ich are ‘ni growing at 
the seed at three sect tee, ie ry 20th of Sep- aati cog b well the purpose for Tr Coul. Tt i is not owing so much ‘a the high pore of 
tember, and the 5th of A poser second tended. From the — well as 3 from Scotland, even the most northern parts of it, th 
sowing I fruit in No. — and the third TW plant out. tend ‘in the centre of the do not ripen well, of 7 cinterepton 
In placing the plants in the fruiting e- I first add a daceee in n bask: ets and on ral me ‘wood 5 on a two ae f the sun’s rays by the vapours from the th Sea and 
quantity of larg which com e Atlantic. In respect to sunshine, — climate of 
Pp f turf g p n pots.” North mp was better some 40 years ago than it is 
_ The plants put suffici «Those of your readers pe og forctlar now. Wer ba to shine fully during the 
inches of the top of the y "so pe the eu may ee affairs during that period, , may remember the m rizes | Summer Asef months s, nothing else is wanted ; for 
thed up as they ad growth. When the p hich | e soil is src and the pee generally mild, on 
are filled with roots, a good supply of water is given of | and as this fact forbids the charge of gies boact ion, Twill accoun’ = of the at of the a — of Scotland 
f the air they i poisentberd our mode of treatmen| t by taking the genus | to the But unhappily as the summers have become — 
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that the bottom ar mabe pot is about four inches above mencing th (ge nerally about the month of | been shown by Mr. Knight, that the greater the cold to — 
the water in the trough — and the return pipe. The race. a yom of of suitable s size is so three parts full of | which plants are exposed during winter, so that it is not 
h train porary and the fruit potsherds, and the remain nder ie Site peat, which is | too severe, so as to destroy their eae the more easily 
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Fy pot. The | are they excited when warmth approaches. Heat without 
st cut first 4 No- | plant is then secured in its oe ieee with small ash ts light is of no use, as is now well known. It might bea 
vember ; from that date to the 4th of December I have | close peat with pegs of wood. I prefer | good speculation for any one to make an attempt to i — 
or three plants, forty beautiful | close peat for this San as I have found it do Keer ies Douglasit from 
from twelve to | than in lighter or brous peat. The plant so Mini math native egos b 
in same plants will continue | is then placed in perce serena —— redhat ree sori —Having flowered the Poin- 
ing till about Christmas. I have just begun to cut | ranging from sixty to seventy degrees, th anaes wilde a pulcherrina bate = Se than I have seen it 
from the second sowing which will continue bearing | moist, the plant kept moist, and more liberall 1 bel ture. Lrsises 
through March. The plants of the first sowing ith wat it advances in growth. When it. has com- plants pln a ee (like + omy ‘foe hard ripened — 
thrown away at Christmas, and plants of the third sowing Snape its growth it it is removed tot the e plant-stove, where wood of last year, and repot t them in sandy loam and a i 
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I plant in a bed, I form the bottom of the bed but th ‘allowed to become | a low stove, as near the glass as seu rh They do pty i 
2 quite pe wg At remains ; until it again “commences well in a greenhouse or pit in July and August, if kept 
| growth, et ee same routine as before.” sak i giety-de Wik detested toon: pat into the e stove 
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extending, ‘and of the most ee scarlet,—the leaves — 
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it in sald: and transverse eels ith solutions of differ- 
ent salts, to see whether any of them would destroy the ; 
moss and prevent its growing again. Several appeared to 
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when the rest of the walk was again co carpeted, 
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spondents to take up the sul abject ; and Ishould 
think it ss) cmerrewg Sorpehengen npegen °F * 
some ges oet tauren in keeping ®°— 
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ed your newspaper, “ Notices and criticisms of work 
on the subject ech botany and Bg) 
suet uas appear,” I trust y: excuse my €X| 
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